This is How Billionaires Vacation

Impressing ultra high net-worth individuals is a high-skilled game reserved for those in the business of orchestrating happiness. And ANI Thailand delivers.

- JAMIE NONIS

Magical. There is no superlative that quite describes the experience that awaits the sophisticated traveller at ÀNI Thailand. And at an eye-watering price tag starting at USD $14,000 ($19,007) a night, there’d better be some supernatural level of hospitality sorcery going on here.

Thankfully, ÀNI Thailand did not disappoint. In fact, it redefined luxury for this luxury lifestyle writer of more than 20 years.

After all, bells and whistles are de rigueur in certain echelons of luxury. Oceanfront villas? Exquisitely crafted fine dining meals? Gorgeous sunset cruises? Private yoga sessions on the beach? Check, check, check, and check.

Impressing ultra-high net-worth individuals, however, is a high-skilled game reserved for those in the business of orchestrating happiness. And ÀNI accomplishes this with finesse.

As purveyors of private travel experiences, ÀNI Thailand is part of the ultra-exclusive ÀNI collection of private resorts situated in some of the most remote corners of the earth. Sister properties include coastal estates in the Dominican Republic, Anguilla, and Sri Lanka. And there’s one common policy amongst all: Guests have to book out the entire resort, thus assuring you utmost exclusivity.

In short, ÀNI Thailand and its all-inclusive luxury proposition could be all yours for USD$14,000 a night for six villas and up to USD$32,000 per night for all 10 villas, depending on the season, for a minimum of five to seven nights.

A PLUSH FRONT ROW SEAT TO NATURE’S BEAUTY 

From Phuket, we take a 30-minute boat ride to the comparably unspoiled Koh Yao Noi, which means “small long island” in Thai, located midway between Phuket and Krabi. ÀNI hugs the island’s east coast, nestled in a two-acre property that opened in 2015.